Buckle.



No. 714,579. Patented Nov. 25, I902.

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{Application filed Feb. 4, 1902.]

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ATENT FFlCEt IATI'IAN I. IIEOIIT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,579, dated November 25, 1902.

Application filed February 4, 1902- Serial No- 92,547. (No model.)

To all whom zit 'nwy cancer/t:

Be it known that I, NATHAN I. l-lnour, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain new and. usefullmprovements in Buckles,of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to buckles, and particularly to that class in which the strap is held between two bars which are movable one toward the other, so that the strap is pinched between them and held with a grip proportionate to the amount of pull upon the strap.

The object of my invention is to cheapen the construction and to render the buckle more durable and less liable to be distorted or broken in use. It is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a plan view of the huekle with the straps in place thereon. Fig. 2 represents an edge view of one side of the strap, and Fig. 3 a like view of the other edge. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the buckle separated from the straps.

The buckle is made from a single piece of wire, round or of any desired cross-section. The bar 1 is that upon which the fixed part of the strap A is folded and to which it is connected in the usual manner. The wire is bent at both ends of the strap-attaching part 1, at right angles thereto, to form side bars 2 and 3, which are in the same plane with each other and with the part 1. The end bar or piece 2 is again bent in the same plane to form a bar 4, the end of which is connected to the bar 3, preferably by an eye formed upon the end of the bar 4. Outside of this eye connection the bar 3 is bent again at right angles to form a part or bar 5, which lies substantially in the same plane and substantially parallel with the bars 1 and 4, and it is connected to the bar 4 near its junction with the side bar 2 by an eye formed on the end of the sa bar 5. It is not essential that these parts be exactly parallel. In fact, the free end of the bar 4,

which with its eyemoves freely upon the bar 3, may be bent in a little toward the bar 1, and as the buckle is made of elastic wire, such as brass Wire, when it is not under strain of the strap the part 4 will not be exactly parallel with the part 1 and when it is under strain will yield toward the part 5. In inserting the strap it may be passed through the buckle over the part 4 and between 4 and 5, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so that when the strap is pulled upon at the end it will pull upon the part or bar 4, and thereby cause the strap to impinge against the bar 4), whereby it is firmly held and more firmly accordi g to the amount of tension of the strap.

The bar 5 is unyieldingly held to the bar 1 on one side by the eye connection and through the part 2 and on the other side directly by the part The simplest and best means of connecting these ends of the bars 4 and 5 are the eyes which I have shown herein; but 6 other means may be used. It is essential that the connection between the bar 4and the bar 5 should be such as to permit one of the par allel bars which pinch the strap to move toward the other. 7

The form of buckle is not essential-that is to say, the bar 1 may be straight, as shown, or may be in any form suitable for connection with the fixed part of the strap. When needed, the side bars 4 and 5 may be exactly 7 parallel, though the form shown. is the simplest. The essential part of. the invention is that which comprises the two parts 4 and 5 with their end connections and with one of them movable in relation to the other. The 3 connections at the ends of these bars prevent them from being pulled away under the strain and throw the strain upon the whole buckleframe.

I claim as my invention- 8 A buckle formed of a single piece of wire and comprising a cross-bar 1, side bars 2 and 3 extending to one side thereof, a cross-bar 4 extending from the side bar 2 and carrying an eye at its opposite end encircling the side bar 3, and a crossbar 5 extending from the bar 3 contiguous to the bar 4 and having an eye at right angles to said bar 5 and encircling bar 4, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature r in resence of two witnesses.

NATHAN I. IIEOIIT.

Witnesses:

JACOB G. ROSENHEIM, MONIE 11120111. 

